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TIL that autopilot was first invented in 1912

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4DBw TIL Bill Nye owns several patents, including one for ballet shoes and another for a clear plastic bag filled with water
GWl7 TIL that in the 1960’s a woman lived together with a dolphin in a partially flooded house for 10 weeks as part of an experiment to teach it to speak. The lengthy experiment finally involved her masturbating the dolphin and tripping on LSD with it.
DAWV TIL that the Gorilla who was taught sign language, Koko, once lied to her trainers blaming a kitten for tearing a sink out of the wall.
WkLKL Mobile passport will get you through customs and immigration in under 60 seconds.
WkL0d TIL the growing German city of Wuppertal needed a railway, but had nowhere to put it. A regular monorail was deemed unsuitable, and an experimental "Floating Monorail" system was selected and constructed through the city and above the river, and remains in popular use today after over 115 years.